Organ-specific transcripts of different size and abundance derive from the same pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase gene in maize.

abstract：:The 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2vitamin D3] analog KH1060 exerts very potent effects on cell proliferation and cell differentiation via the vitamin D receptor (VDR). However, the activities of KH1060 are not associated with an increased affinity for the VDR. We now show that increased stabilization of the VDR-...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： van den Bemd GC,Pols HA,Birkenhäger JC,van Leeuwen JP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope spike of HIV is one of the most highly N-glycosylated structures found in nature. However, despite extensive research revealing essential functional roles in infection and immune evasion, the chemical structures of the glycans on the native viral envelope glycoprotein gp120--as opposed to recombinantly ge...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Doores KJ,Bonomelli C,Harvey DJ,Vasiljevic S,Dwek RA,Burton DR,Crispin M,Scanlan CN

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Communities have an important role to play in biodiversity conservation. However, community-based conservation as a panacea, like government-based conservation as a panacea, ignores the necessity of managing commons at multiple levels, with vertical and horizontal interplay among institutions. The study of conservatio...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Berkes F

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the spontaneous clustering of solitons in partially coherent wavefronts during the final stages of pattern formation initiated by modulation instability and noise. ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chen Z,Sears SM,Martin H,Christodoulides DN,Segev M

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the plant cell wall by glycoside hydrolases is central to environmentally sustainable industries. The major polysaccharides of the plant cell wall are cellulose and xylan, a highly decorated β-1,4-xylopyranose polymer. Glycoside hydrolases displaying multiple catalytic functions may simplify the enz...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： McKee LS,Peña MJ,Rogowski A,Jackson A,Lewis RJ,York WS,Krogh KB,Viksø-Nielsen A,Skjøt M,Gilbert HJ,Marles-Wright J

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) receptor controls a pathway supporting the differentiation and survival of a wide range of neural cell types during development and in adulthood. Cardiotrophin-like cytokine (CLC)-cytokine-like factor 1 (CLF) composite cytokine is a second ligand for the CNTF alpha-component receptor...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Rousseau F,Gauchat JF,McLeod JG,Chevalier S,Guillet C,Guilhot F,Cognet I,Froger J,Hahn AF,Knappskog PM,Gascan H,Boman H

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the surface delivery pathways followed by newly synthesized plasma membrane proteins in intestinal cells. To this end, we developed an assay and characterized an epithelial cell line (SK-CO-15) derived from human colon adenocarcinoma. Polarized confluent monolayers (2000 omega.cm2), grown on polycarbonate f...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Le Bivic A,Real FX,Rodriguez-Boulan E

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina (GA) is an inherited chorioretinal degeneration caused by deficiency of ornithine delta-aminotransferase (OAT; L-ornithine: 2-oxo-acid aminotransferase; EC 2.6.1.13). GA is one of the "Finnish genetic diseases," a group of several rare monogenic disorders that occur with increa...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Mitchell GA,Brody LC,Sipila I,Looney JE,Wong C,Engelhardt JF,Patel AS,Steel G,Obie C,Kaiser-Kupfer M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their discovery as cell-division factors in plant tissue culture about five decades ago, cytokinins have been hypothesized to play a central role in the regulation of cell division and differentiation in plants. To test this hypothesis in planta, we isolated Arabidopsis plants lacking one, two, or three of the g...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Higuchi M,Pischke MS,Mähönen AP,Miyawaki K,Hashimoto Y,Seki M,Kobayashi M,Shinozaki K,Kato T,Tabata S,Helariutta Y,Sussman MR,Kakimoto T

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated local inflammation and activation of complement amongst the processes involved in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Several lines of investigation also indicate that bis-retinoid pigments, such as A2E, that accumulate as lipofuscin in retinal pigment epithelial ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zhou J,Jang YP,Kim SR,Sparrow JR

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrinos represent a new "window" to the Universe, spanning a large range of energy. We discuss the science of neutrino astrophysics and focus on two energy regimes. At "lower" energies ( approximately 1 MeV), studies of neutrinos born inside the sun, or produced in interactions of cosmic rays with the atmosphere, ha...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Besson D,Cowen D,Selen M,Wiebusch C

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study into the molecular basis of attenuation and reversion to neurovirulence in the Sabin poliovirus vaccines, we have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of a cloned DNA copy of the genome of P3/Leon/37, the neurovirulent progenitor of the type 3 Sabin vaccine strain, P3/Leon 12a1b. Comparison o...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Stanway G,Hughes PJ,Mountford RC,Reeve P,Minor PD,Schild GC,Almond JW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural crest cell derivatives have been suggested to be involved in thymus development. We established nonlymphoid thymic stromal cell cultures capable of supporting T-cell differentiation. In these nonlymphoid cell cultures, we identified cells with phenotypic and biochemical markers specific for neuronal cells. Neur...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Screpanti I,Meco D,Scarpa S,Morrone S,Frati L,Gulino A,Modesti A

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper regulation of neurotransmission requires that ligand-activated ion channels remain closed until agonist binds. How channels then open remains poorly understood. Glycine receptor (GlyR) gating is initiated by agonist binding at interfaces between adjacent subunits in the extracellular domain. Aspartate-97, locat...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Todorovic J,Welsh BT,Bertaccini EJ,Trudell JR,Mihic SJ

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, AK I- HDH I and AK II- HDH II are two bifunctional proteins, derived from a common ancestor, that catalyze the first and third reactions of the common pathway leading to threonine and methionine. An extensive amino acid sequence comparison of both molecules reveals two main features on each of the...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ferrara P,Duchange N,Zakin MM,Cohen GN

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) [GTP;oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase(transphosphorylating); EC 4.1.1.32] is absent in rat liver cytosol during fetal life and is synthesized initially at birth. De novo synthesis of the enzyme can be induced prematurely by injection of dibutyryl cyclic AMP or glucagon into fetal anim...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Garcia Ruiz JP,Ingram R,Hanson RW

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factor (IRF) 4 is a member of the IRF family of transcription factors and plays critical roles in the development of CD4(+) T cells into Th2 and Th17 cells. Using the infection model of Nippostrongyrus brasiliensis, we have confirmed the critical roles of IRF-4 in Th2 development in vivo by using...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Honma K,Kimura D,Tominaga N,Miyakoda M,Matsuyama T,Yui K

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) have shown impressive therapeutic efficacy against leukemias and lymphomas. However, they have not been as effective against solid tumors because they become hyporesponsive ("exhausted" or "dysfunctional") within the tumor microenvironment, with decreased cyt...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Seo H,Chen J,González-Avalos E,Samaniego-Castruita D,Das A,Wang YH,López-Moyado IF,Georges RO,Zhang W,Onodera A,Wu CJ,Lu LF,Hogan PG,Bhandoola A,Rao A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 21 human mammary tumors analyzed for transforming genes by transfection of NIH/3T3 cells, only DNA of a carcinosarcoma cell line, HS578T, registered as positive. A Harvey (H)-ras oncogene identified in this line was cloned in biologically active form and the activating lesion was identified as a single nucleotid...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kraus MH,Yuasa Y,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a classic model of mammalian brain formation, precursors of principal glutamatergic neurons migrate radially along radial glia fibers whereas GABAergic interneuron precursors migrate tangentially. These migration modes have significant implications for brain function. Here we used clonal lineage tracing of active r...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sun GJ,Zhou Y,Stadel RP,Moss J,Yong JH,Ito S,Kawasaki NK,Phan AT,Oh JH,Modak N,Reed RR,Toni N,Song H,Ming GL

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman primates possess a highly developed capacity for face recognition, which resembles the human capacity both cognitively and neurologically. Face recognition is typically tested by having subjects compare facial images, whereas there has been virtually no attention to how they connect these images to reality. C...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Pokorny JJ,de Waal FB

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis initiation in reticulocyte lysates is inhibited by heme deficiency, low levels of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), oxidized glutathione (GSSG), or the purified kinase (HRI) that acts on the alpha polypeptide of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2alpha). The phosphoprotein profiles produced in lysates i...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ernst V,Levin DH,London IM

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+)-sensitive kinases are thought to play a role in long-term potentiation (LTP). To test the involvement of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaM-K II), truncated, constitutively active form of this kinase was directly injected into CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells. Inclusion of CaM-K II in the recording pipette...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lledo PM,Hjelmstad GO,Mukherji S,Soderling TR,Malenka RC,Nicoll RA

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanism of ion transport across membranes is reported. Microbial transport of Fe(3+) generally delivers iron, a growth-limiting nutrient, to cells via highly specific siderophore-mediated transport systems. In contrast, iron transport in the fresh water bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila is found to occur by means of ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Stintzi A,Barnes C,Xu J,Raymond KN

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a group of peptides, originally isolated from the cardiac atria, that have a number of important effects on blood pressure, renal function, and salt balance. In the current study, expression of the ANF gene in certain extra-atrial tissues of the rat has been examined by radioimmunoas...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gardner DG,Deschepper CF,Ganong WF,Hane S,Fiddes J,Baxter JD,Lewicki J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analyses of Na,K-ATPase abundance and alpha-subunit isoform distribution were performed to determine whether pump expression varies at different points through the thickness of the circular layer of colonic smooth muscle. The mRNA and polypeptides of Na,K-ATPase alpha 1 and beta subunits were twice as abunda...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Burke EP,Sanders KM,Horowitz B

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene function is typically evaluated by sampling the continuum of gene expression at only a few discrete points corresponding to gene knockout or overexpression. We argue that this characterization is incomplete and present a library of engineered promoters of varying strengths obtained through mutagenesis of a consti...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Alper H,Fischer C,Nevoigt E,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the complete amino acid sequence of human plasma Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein was determined. This protein whose biological function is unknown consists of a single polypeptide chain of 276 amino acid residues including 8 tryptophan residues and has a pyroglutamyl residue at the amino terminus. The loc...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Araki T,Gejyo F,Takagaki K,Haupt H,Schwick HG,Bürgi W,Marti T,Schaller J,Rickli E,Brossmer R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of quiescent cultures of mouse embryo-derived AKR-2B cells with transforming growth factor beta resulted in an early induction of c-sis mRNA. The increase in c-sis mRNA was followed by a corresponding increase in protein similar to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) in the culture medium. In addition, PDG...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Leof EB,Proper JA,Goustin AS,Shipley GD,DiCorleto PE,Moses HL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of extracellular stimuli, including soluble cytokines and insoluble matrix factors, are known to influence murine embryonic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation behavioral responses via intracellular signaling pathways, but their net effects in combination are difficult to understand. To gain insight co...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Prudhomme W,Daley GQ,Zandstra P,Lauffenburger DA

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00